WordPress MoveTo Plugin <= 6.2 is vulnerable to Denial of Service Attack

Patch priority: medium
Medium priority vPatch available
Vulnerable version
<= 6.2 Vulnerable version
Not fixed
No official fix available Fixed version

12 February 2024 by Patchstack

Risks

CVSS 8.6

This vulnerability is moderately dangerous and expected to become exploited.

8.6

Denial of Service Attack

A denial of service attack occurs when a malicious actor can cause the endpoint, or website, to crash or refuse to serve requests to one or more users by causing it to hang, crash or make unusable.

This is a general description of this vulnerability type, specific impact varies case by case. CVSS score is a way to evaluate and rank reported vulnerabilities in a standardized and repeatable way, but it is not ideal for WordPress.

Solutions

We advise to mitigate or resolve the vulnerability immediately.

Details

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Timeline

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24 Dec 2023
Early warning sent out

Early warning sent out to Patchstack customers

12 Feb 2024
Published by Patchstack

Published by Patchstack

14 Feb 2024

Patchstack is one of the largest open-source vulnerability disclosers in the world. For example, in 2023 more than 70% of new WordPress vulnerabilities were originally published by Patchstack. This focus on research enables us to deploy vulnerability protection rules faster than anybody else.

Patchstack vPatching auto-mitigates security vulnerabilities even when there's no official patch available. It's the fastest and most effective way to eliminate new security vulnerabilities without sacrificing performance.

Hackers automate attacks against new security vulnerabilities to take over as many websites as they can before users have time to patch and update. The attacks are opportunistic and victims are not chosen - everyone is a target.

We recommend reaching out to your hosting provider for server-side malware scanning or use a professional incident response service. Don't rely on plugin based malware scanners as they are commonly tampered with by malware.

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